|
Post by OldSamVimes on May 9, 2021 9:07:29 GMT
|
|
|
Post by amyghost on May 9, 2021 10:14:01 GMT
Buddha always struck me as being just a bit humbler than Jesus. He didn't refer to himself as the son of god, for one thing. 'God is the birth person of us all'. Which is the way I've always taken the Son of Man phrase. Not as Jesus' having been the physical product of a literal impregnation of a nubile human virgin by an extra-human deity, but in the sense that all are the product of god. I'm not a believer in the Christian interpretation of that deity (nor in the interpretation of any other religious sect's, for that matter), but insofar as I'm prepared to accept the notion of creation in the supernatural as opposed to the evolutionary sense (which isn't far, I'll admit), I find the symbolic sense of 'son' far more tolerable and humane than the literal one, in this case.
|
|